Maid to Order/ Question 1

Ehrenreich’s intended audience for this piece is people who are mostly ignorant to the hardships of low wage occupations and don’t appreciate how valuable these workers are. Although her topic is specifically housekeepers, I feel she is trying to speak for many others such as lawns men, garbage collectors; anyone who performs a job that is generally looked down upon but is essential for the maintenance of our society. She makes the correct assumption that most middle class people don’t really think about how difficult and generally unrewarding these positions are even though they are important. They may witness someone performing one of these jobs but most never actually consider how challenging and demeaning they can really be or how different life would be if no one filled these careers. What if no one could be called to clean your house or mow your lawn? What if no one showed up to collect your trash? The majority of the population doesn’t realize how significant these jobs are for our society to run as efficiently as it does.